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NEWS - Tuesday, July 10, 2001

Xavier Fox goes Dolby Digital

The other day word around the net was that Vision Games Xavier Fox: The Lost
City will be embraceing the standard in home theater audio by going Dolby Digital. Here is the press release.

In keeping with their commitment to excellence, Vision Games,
LLC, announces today that all music and sound effects in Xavier Fox: The Lost
City will be encoded with Dolby Digital utilizing Dolby Interactive
Content-Encoding Technology.

The Dolby Interactive Content Encoder, as used in the Xbox, achieves superior
output for all multichannel four and 5.1 channel game audio from Dolby Digital
home theater/speaker systems with low latency-rendering interactive game sound
effects in the same surround sound quality offered in DVDs.

"Were very excited to have the opportunity to use this technology to
heighten the sense of reality within our game world," said Dean Rymer, Lead
Designer of Vision Games. "Dolby Digital is a very important tool that
delivers and audio experience equal to our graphical capabilities."

"Whether its the wind in the trees, or birds in the air, Dolby Digital
allows us to put the player in a three-dimensional soundscape," said Vision
Games Director, Stephen White. "Where the last generation of video game
consoles created a visual third dimension, this generation opens up the third
dimension to our ears."